Saudi Aramco officials said that progress is being made on a $20-billion project that includes a 400,000-barrel-per-day oil refinery and a 4,000-megawatt integrated-gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power plant, which would become the world’s largest.

Air Liquide has signed a contract to build an air separation unit (ASU) that will provide 5,000 tonnes per day of oxygen for Sasol’s 160,000-barrel-per-day, coal-to-liquids (CTL) plant at Secunda, South Africa.